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She stopped by “Sesame Street” and no doubt dashed the hopes of wannabe royals everywhere when she told Abby Cadabby that being a princess is not a career.

“A career is a job you train for, or prepare for and plan on doing for a long time,” Sotomayor said.

So what kinds of careers are there for girls (or muppets) like Abby?

“You can go to school and train to be a teacher, a lawyer, a doctor, an engineer and even a scientist,” Sotomayor said. “I am a United States Supreme Court justice. I went to school and studied law and then became a judge.”

That sounded pretty good to Abby, who decided she wants to be a judge too.

Maybe don’t ask her to decide between originalism and the living Constitution theory just yet.